Thursday, July 12, 2012

While vacationing in Tennessee and on the way home to Arkansas


 Cherokee Village AR woods, but very well could be those at Fairfield Glade TN


sleeveless in summer
the skin on my upper arms
really my mother's
~~~
After
3-digit days,
the welcome cold front drops
 the early morning temps to the
sixties!
~~~

when does a sapling
become a tree and a creek
become a river?
~~~

bare upper branches
along the wooded roadsides
makes me wonder
~~~

child's question: more trees
or more people? Tennessee
gives trees an edge
~~~

spiky trunks
bared by an earlier storm~
green fields of milo
~~~

a patch of brown leaves
on the tree's small branches
its first summer
~~~

c 2012 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press







































































































































































































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